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Lin Lee Liu
 13 Dec 2011, 11:09 #136967 Reply To Post
Has anyone here ever had one of these done?

I just read an entertaining blogpost on this topic from Nick Earls.

What's your favourite author photo?

I think mine is Stephen King's. His face just matches his genre perfectly. His expression is appropriate to the point where I think he can't be a real person. He MUST have been hired as the face of the franchise, which is actually written by a little old lady.
sulcus
 13 Dec 2011, 13:35 #136987 Reply To Post
Quote: Lin Lee Liu, Tuesday, 13 Dec 2011 11:09
Has anyone here ever had one of these done?

I just read an entertaining blogpost on this topic from Nick Earls.

What's your favourite author photo?

I think mine is Stephen King's. His face just matches his genre perfectly. His expression is appropriate to the point where I think he can't be a real person. He MUST have been hired as the face of the franchise, which is actually written by a little old lady.


william burroughs had the best face and usually the best props in his poses
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Lin Lee Liu
 13 Dec 2011, 20:31 #137041 Reply To Post
Indeed. That one with his gun to his face, I wonder whose gun that was.

The third one has been lit to make the most of his wrinkles.

I was reading a photography tutorial recently in which photographers were advised to do less photoshop work on men because it's expected men will look more 'grainy'.

For some reason I found this terribly depressing. Probably because that sentiment can be rephrased as 'Men are allowed to look older than 35 but the same grace is not extended to women.'

Has anyone come across a photograph of a mature female writer in which her hard earned wrinkles have been left alone?
CaroleH
 13 Dec 2011, 21:01 #137046 Reply To Post
Iris Murdoch?

Fay Weldon?

Doris Lessing?

sulcus
 13 Dec 2011, 21:23 #137050 Reply To Post
Quote: Lin Lee Liu, Tuesday, 13 Dec 2011 20:31
Indeed. That one with his gun to his face, I wonder whose gun that was.

The third one has been lit to make the most of his wrinkles.

I was reading a photography tutorial recently in which photographers were advised to do less photoshop work on men because it's expected men will look more 'grainy'.

For some reason I found this terribly depressing. Probably because that sentiment can be rephrased as 'Men are allowed to look older than 35 but the same grace is not extended to women.'

Has anyone come across a photograph of a mature female writer in which her hard earned wrinkles have been left alone?


The gun will almost certainly be his. He was very into his weapons was old Bill. Shot his wife in a William Tell incident. Stopped writing for making shotgun paintings, where he'd riddle cans of paint with buckshot and let the paint ooze out on to canvas.
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sulcus
 13 Dec 2011, 21:25 #137051 Reply To Post
Quote: Lin Lee Liu, Tuesday, 13 Dec 2011 20:31
Indeed. That one with his gun to his face, I wonder whose gun that was.

The third one has been lit to make the most of his wrinkles.

I was reading a photography tutorial recently in which photographers were advised to do less photoshop work on men because it's expected men will look more 'grainy'.

For some reason I found this terribly depressing. Probably because that sentiment can be rephrased as 'Men are allowed to look older than 35 but the same grace is not extended to women.'

Has anyone come across a photograph of a mature female writer in which her hard earned wrinkles have been left alone?


I seem to recall a Simone de Beauvoir one, but I may be imagining that. Ruth Rendell's pretty wrinkly
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Malcolm
 13 Dec 2011, 22:29 #137061 Reply To Post
Joan Didion.
No stars. No charts. Just crits.
dancingsue
 13 Dec 2011, 22:48 #137065 Reply To Post
Jonathan Swift.
the long and the short of it

Lin Lee Liu
 14 Dec 2011, 00:45 #137073 Reply To Post
Jonathan Swift was a woman?

Hmm.

Iris Murdoch died in 1999, so she was at her peak before the Age of Photoshop. Though I'm sure there were wrinkle reducing things to be done with photos even before the digital era. Lighting, mainly I guess.

Fay Weldon's a known feminist, and feminists aren't meant to be conventionally attractive, or else it gets them into other sorts of strife a la Gloria Steinem. Ditto Simone de Beauvoir.

Doris Lessing is 92, so Photoshop retouching would be too obviously disingenuous.

Joan Didion is an interesting case. So is Ruth Rendell, who can look like a harmless middle aged woman in some shots, yet she's asked to pose like this for her author shots.



I have a different theory now.

Thanks all.
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